No, you can’t estimate the relative risks of a drug.
If you could accurately estimate the effects of a drug before it went into clinical trials you wouldn’t need the clinical trials.
Over 90% of the stuff doesn’t work the way the drug company intends it to work.
[quote]Especially in the future, since we’re in the age where we are rapidly learning about biological networks?
[/quote]We are in an age where we don’t have a clue about the purpose of a double digit percent of our genes.
We are in an age where computer based chemical/drug interaction prediction doesn’t give you all interactions.
No, you can’t estimate the relative risks of a drug. If you could accurately estimate the effects of a drug before it went into clinical trials you wouldn’t need the clinical trials. Over 90% of the stuff doesn’t work the way the drug company intends it to work. [quote]Especially in the future, since we’re in the age where we are rapidly learning about biological networks? [/quote]We are in an age where we don’t have a clue about the purpose of a double digit percent of our genes.
We are in an age where computer based chemical/drug interaction prediction doesn’t give you all interactions.